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** KINSHASA – President of Switzerland Alain Berset will be visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo and he will meet with President Felix Tshisekedi.
** SAMARKAND - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visits Samarkand, Uzbekistan to take part in the Fourth Annual Ministerial Conference Of Afghanistan's Neighbours. Apart from Russia and Uzbekistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan are also participating - 1100 GMT. BEIJING - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will visit China (to April 15).
BELFAST - U.S. President Joe Biden begins a four-day visit to Northern Ireland in Belfast on Tuesday evening, where he will meet UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as the British-run region marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord (to April 14).
DUBLIN/BELFAST - U.S. President Joe Biden to visit Ireland, Northern Ireland (to April 14).
TASHKENT - Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang will visit Uzbekistan (final day). ANKARA - Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will visit Ankara to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu - 1500 GMT.
BEIJING - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will visit China (to April 15). BUCHAREST - Ukrainian and Romanian foreign and defence ministries meet in Bucharest for a conference on Black Sea security.
WASHINGTON DC - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel give press conference in Washington - 1145 GMT.
DUBLIN - U.S. President Joe Biden meets with the Irish President Michael Higgins in Dublin.
DUBLIN - U.S. President Biden addresses the Houses of the Irish parliament on the third day of a visit to the island of Ireland.
SARAJEVO - Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev visits Bosnia, where he will meet the country's tripartite inter-ethnic presidency. BEIJING - German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock travels to China on first leg of Asia trip (to April 15).
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** VIENNA - Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, will pay a visit to Austria.
** SAMARKAND - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov takes part in a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
** RIYADH - Saudi Arabia hosts a meeting of foreign ministers from Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah to discuss Syria's return to the Arab League.
** SEOUL - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna meets with her South Korean counterpart Park Jin in Seoul to boost bilateral ties. DUBLIN - U.S. President Biden visits Knock in County Mayo, touring the Sanctuary of Our Lady Knock, on the fourth day of his visit to the island of Ireland. BEIJING - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. VIENNA - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda speak to reporters - 1030 GMT.
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** SEOUL - Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly meets her South Korean counterpart Park Jin in Seoul to boost bilateral ties. HANOI - U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Vietnam to meet with its top leaders before taking part in the G7 meeting in Japan. SEOUL - German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock travels to South Korea on second leg of Asia trip. BELFAST/NEW YORK – 110th Anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
SAPPORO, Japan - G7 Ministers' Meeting on Climate, Energy and Environment (to April 16).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 16TOKYO - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock arrives in Japan after visiting China and South Korea. KARUIZAWA, Japan - G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Karuizawa, Nagano (to April 18).
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** NEW YORK, United States - Economic and Social Council, Annual Economic and Social Council forum on financing for development follow-up, including the special high-level meeting of the Council with the World Bank, IMF, WTO and UNCTAD (to April 20). BOSTON - 2023 Boston Marathon.
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** BRUSSELS - NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg receives Czech President Petr Pavel at NATO Head Quarters in Brussels - 1145 GMT. UNITED STATES - 13th anniversary of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 21PARIS – 62nd anniversary of the first manned mission to space. SAHARA DESERT, Morocco - Desert Marathon Des sables (to May 1).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 22BRASILIA - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visits Portugal for a state visit and to attend Portuguese language summit, then continues to Spain - 0100 GMT. GLOBAL - Earth Day.
LISBON - Portugal to host bilateral summit with Brazil (to April 25).
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 23GLOBAL – U.N. World Book and Copyright Day. LONDON - 2023 London Marathon.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, APRIL 24BRUSSELS - Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo inviting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, German Chancelor Olaf Scholz and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in coastal town of Ostend for the 2023 North Sea Summit. NEW YORK - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will meet UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York and will chair two meetings of the Security Council (to April 25). ROAD TOWN - British Virgin Islands House of Assembly Election.
GLOBAL - World Immunization Week 2023 (to April 30). LUXEMBOURG – EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, APRIL 25TOKYO - Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will be on an official visit to Japan at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio (to April 28).
NEW YORK CITY - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chairs open debate on the Middle East as part of Russia's presidency of the UN Security Council this month. GLOBAL - World Malaria Day.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26WASHINGTON DC - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to meet U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington.
DELPHI, Greece - Greece hosts annual economic conference in Delphi (to April 29).
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, APRIL 28PORT ARTHUR, Tasmania – 25th anniversary of Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania.
BUDAPEST - Pope Francis to visit Hungary (to April 30).
STOCKHOLM – Eurogroup Meeting.
BRUSSELS - EU informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers (to April 29).
- - - - - - - - - SATURDAY, APRIL 29STOCKHOLM - EU finance ministers and heads of central banks meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union. LONDON – 12th wedding anniversary of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, APRIL 30THIMPHU - Bhutanese National Council Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Presidency of Paraguay Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies Election.
ASUNCIÓN - Paraguayan Chamber of Senators Election.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 4Goa, India - The foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, comprising China, Russia, India and other central Asian countries, meet in Goa (to May 5). BRUSSELS – EU Informal meeting of health ministers (to May 5).
BRUSSELS – EU Foreign Affairs Council (Development) Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 8BERLIN - German Finance Minister Christian Lindner gives a keynote address at a conference for German tax advisers - 1315 GMT.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 9LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - 42nd ASEAN Summit (to May 11). LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) (to May 11).
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 11NIIGATA, Japan - G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors' Meeting in Niigata (to May 13). BRUSSELS - EU Informal meeting of foreign affairs ministers – Gymnich (to May 12).
INDONESIA - Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in the first summit of the year in Indonesia.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 12KORNIK, Poland - European affairs ministers of Poland, France and Germany and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna are due to meet in Kornik, Western Poland. STOCKHOLM - EU foreign ministers meet in Stockholm during the Swedish presidency of the Council of the European Union.
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** MAURITANIA - Mauritanian National Assembly Election.
- - - - - - - - - SUNDAY, MAY 14THAILAND - Thailand holds a general election. TURKEY - Grand National Assembly of Turkey Election. TURKEY - Presidency of Turkey Election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 15BRUSSELS – Eurogroup meeting.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 16BRUSSELS - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Meeting.
- - - - - - - - - FRIDAY, MAY 19HIROSHIMA - Japan to host summit of G7 leaders (to May 21).
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** GENEVA - WHO, World Health Assembly, Seventy-sixth session (to May 30). DILI - Timorese National Parliament Election. GREECE - Greece holds parliamentary election.
- - - - - - - - - MONDAY, MAY 22BRUSSELS - EU foreign ministers meet in Brussels.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 23BRUSSELS - EU Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) Meeting.
GENEVA - Switzerland holds a ministerial debate on the themes it will raise as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
- - - - - - - - - THURSDAY, MAY 25DETROIT, United States – APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting (to May 26).
BRUSSELS - Meeting of EU trade ministers.
- - - - - - - - - TUESDAY, MAY 30BRUSSELS – EU General Affairs Council meeting.
- - - - - - - - - WEDNESDAY, MAY 31OSLO - Norway to host meeting of NATO foreign ministers (to June 1).
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** LUXEMBOURG - EU Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting (to June 9).
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** MONTENEGRO - Montenegrin Assembly Election.
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** LUXEMBOURG – Eurogroup meeting.
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** LUXEMBOURG - EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council meeting.
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** SIERRA LEONE - Presidency of Sierra Leone Election.
** SIERRA LEONE - Sierra Leonean Parliament Election.
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** GUATEMALA - Guatemalan Congress of the Republic Election.
** GUATEMALA - Presidency of Guatemala Election.
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